Although separation of product design from manufacturing capabilities is a major advantage of Additive Manufacturing (AM), the impact of AM is not only limited to the design and manufacturing stages. In addition to the freedom of design such as elimination of design constraints, material saving, and free complexity, AM offers other potential benefits to the manufacturing industry as well. One o...

Agent based distributed manufacturing control and scheduling systems are subsets of new manufacturing systems. Multi agent systems (MAS) not only drive design and engineering control solutions but also influence flexibility, agility, and re-configurability, which makes MASs a better centralized systems than its traditional counterparts. However, implementation of all MASs in the real factories ...

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), technologies are presented as solutions to manufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensions simultaneously. In the literature, CIM technologies providing such benefits as more frequent production changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with a high degree of accuracy and repea...

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), technologies are presented as solutions to manufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensions simultaneously. In the literature, CIM technologies providing such benefits as more frequent production changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with a high degree of accuracy and repea...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a process of making a Three-Dimensional (3D) solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model that is used for both prototyping and distributed manufacturing with applications in many fields, such as dental and medical industries and biotech (human tissue replacement). AM refers to technologies that create objects through a sequential layering process. AM ...

In this paper we present our results on the performance analysis of a multi-product manufacturing line. We study the influence of external perturbations, intermediate buffer content and the number of manufacturing stages on the production tracking error of each machine in the multi-product line operated under a surplusbased production control policy. Starting by the analysis of a single machine...

B.V. Chowdary Manufacturing today is the most critical and dynamic sector, with the capacity to provide more jobs, stabilise communities and drive nation’s growth. There remains an urgent need in Trinidad and Tobago (TT) to research and assess opportunities to strengthen the manufacturing sector that is expected to provide a stable economy in the absence of the energy sector. Manufacturing tech...

A virtual factory integrated manufacturing system combined with system simulation and virtual reality is introduced in this paper. We describe the system architecture and development methodology, provide the working principle of process simulation and monitoring in virtual factory, and then explain the detailed applications of virtual factory integrated manufacturing system. With the visualizat...

In this paper, we introduce an intellectual property protection system for a workstation using watermarking system. The proposed system is designed for a networked intelligent manufacturing system(IMS) that uses virtual reality technology for design review, simulation and virtual manufacturing. The intelligent manufacturing environment must provide not only innovative approaches to generate and...

During the last few years Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) became an important aspect in the manufacturing industry. The di erent components of CIM as there are the CAx techniques on the engineering side and manufacturing planning and control systems (MPC-systems) on the operational side now show their in uence on organizational structures and the working environment. Limits and problems...